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Lady Tigers continue breaking records in historic run

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Soccer streak continues

Being late to class often has repercus-sions, but not all University of Memphis students consider that being tardy can sometimes leave them without a place to sit.

At the beginning of each semester, professors are instructed to report to their department if they have any classes with inadequate seating for each stu-dent. The department then reports these classes to the office of the registrar.

Jasmine Lee, a junior nursing major, said that she has had classes where too few desks have caused students to leave.

“I have had classes in the past that did not have enough seats for everyone, and it was just frustrating,” she said. “Students who weren’t there on time didn’t have a place to sit. There were

times when I didn’t have a seat, so I left.”Kismet Winkelmann, assistant regis-

trar for registration and scheduling, said that she sends out an email to every instructor before each term begins, ask-ing them to let their individual depart-ments know as soon as possible if they need any classroom changes.

“If they don’t contact me, I don’t know about it,” Winkelmann said. “It both-ers me to know there are students on campus without desks in some of their classes.”

Often, though, there are some classes well over student capacity that never get moved to a larger classroom, said part-time philosophy professor Paula Cima.

“I teach a philosophy 1101 course with 43 students, but the classroom only seats 32,” Cima said. “I have asked for another room. All you can do is ask.”

Torya Polk, senior criminal justice major, said that her elementary logic course exceeds seating capacity and that the overcrowded environment can effect her concentration.

“Not only is it hard to learn and obtain information when students are crammed together,” she said, “but I also have to rush to class just so I know I will be able to get a seat. I don’t understand why it is so hard to have a desk for every student.”

The inconvenience of being seatless

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Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra, local vocalist performance to pay homage to legendary female jazz artists of old

For the Memphis-based Lehman-Roberts Company, the Fogelman College of Business and Economics is a crop of potential employees that they harvest often.

The company’s vice president, Patrick Nelson, hired the corpora-tion’s first intern while he was an IT Director with the company and pursu-ing an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from The University of Memphis.

“We are encouraging (the hiring of U of M interns) from the top down as it has proven for us a quality way to find great employees that we hope will remain working here well into the future, bringing value both to their personal development and to our orga-

Local firms finding new prospects among UM internsBY CHELSEA BOOZERNews Reporter

University practice of ‘overbooking’ classes irritates some students while impeding the educational process of others

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A taste of history will come to The University of Memphis on Monday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music’s Women of Jazz concert, featuring performer Joyce Cobb.

Cobb and The U of M Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra will perform the works of artists including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Melba Liston, Mary Lou Williams and Maria Schneider in the Harris Concert Hall at 3775 Central.

An adjunct professor at The U of M, Cobb toured Europe with soul and gospel singer Otis Clay and opened for blues singer Taj Mahal. She also opened for R&B and soul group The Temptations and jazz singer Al Jarreau.

Cobb said that she once opened for Muddy Waters in 1970 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

“I remember that it was full of young college kids, and I was pretty close to their ages at the time,” she said. “Whatever I sang, it was probably the music I knew at the time – country and rock. I doubt if I did any blues or jazz during his show.”

Before opening for Waters, Cobb said, there was always music in her life.

“My mother and father played a lot of classical and jazz, and I grew up on rock and roll and I just fell in love with music,” she said. “It kind of followed me all the way through my life.”

It wasn’t until she started singing in Nashville on Ralph Emery’s morning radio show and the Teddy Bart TV Show that

BY ERICA HORTONNews Reporter

The University of Memphis’ Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra, above, performs with adjunct professor and vocalist Joyce Cobb on Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m.see Jazz, page 5

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Raines unveils historical marker near south border of UM campus

On Tuesday, University of Memphis President Shirley Raines unveiled a historical marker commemorating the site of the original railway depot built near Southern Avenue.

“The marker captures the milestones of history at The University,” Raines said. “I am a sentimental person. Knowing this is something we will have in our history forever is very important to me.”

The depot was built on the south side of campus to trans-port commuter students coming to and from school. It also served people who rode the trolley line to and from the Mid-South fairgrounds.

“The railroad is very impor-tant to this campus,” Raines said. “Without the railroad, we would not have been able to build our campus.”

History Department Chair Dr. Janann Sherman was instrumen-tal in discovering the historic landmark’s location.

“I read a lot of old docu-ments about the normal depot,” Sherman said. “I then found myself wanting to know exactly where it was located. Convinced it had to be close by, I went look-

ing for it.”The depot was not only impor-

tant to students and faculty, but to military soldiers as well. During World War I, soldiers used the depot as a means of transporta-tion to The Kennedy Hospital.

“The soldiers using the depot was critical,” Sherman said. “After the war ended, it became less and less important.”

Jimmy Ogle, Shelby County Historical Commission chair, said having the marker on campus shows how far The University has come and where it is going.

“It is very great to see the campus grow,” Ogle said. “I am very excited about seeing where the campus will go from here.”

Dr. Beverly Bond, director of the African American Studies program agreed with Ogle.

“It is important that students know how their campus came about,” Bonds said. “Having the marker gives students and people a sense of perspective on what being ‘old’ really is.”

Bonds also said that the dis-covery of the depot took a lot of time, effort and research.

“Dr. Sherman is a go-getter,” Bond said. “She sat and did a lot of reading and thinking. At the end of the day, she worked hard and got the job done.”

U of M President Shirley Raines and Janann Sherman, chair of the history department, unveil the Normal Depot historical marker on the foundation of what was once Normal station in the early 1900s.

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nization,” Nelson said.The first intern Nelson hired

in 2006, Bachelor of Business Administration alumnus Jason Keen, implemented a full internship program for the company last semester. Keen hired David Middleton, senior management information sys-tems major, whose internship ends in December.

“This internship was a great experience, not only from what I’ve learned while working here, but I have gained con-nections with other companies who want to talk to me about possibly being a part of their company,” Middleton said. “It definitely taught me a lot and

opened doors.”Nelson, Keen and Middleton

met each other through Brian Janz, their former management information systems professor.

Janz said that his students should take advantage of their position at The U of M to network with professor, a fac-tor that helps students obtain prime spots in companies like Lehman-Roberts.

“When you think of interns, you think this is good for the student, but the other side of this is the company gets some great employees too. In this case, this company got a great intern, and made him a full-time offer,” Janz said, refer-ring to Keen. “And they real-ized, ‘Hey, we want to get that internship benefit.’”

Janz recommended that stu-

dents make their professors aware of their skills and con-tact The University’s office of academic internships.

Kathy Tuberville, coordina-tor of academic internships, said that she is pleased with the circle of U of M interns flowing in and out of local companies.

“I think it is a fabulous trend and a great endorsement of internships when a former intern wants to hire interns from his or her alma mater. It is in line with Mayor Luttrell and Mayor Wharton’s goals to help keep great, young tal-ent in Shelby County through internship connections,” she said.

She shared Janz’s sentiment that the process is not only beneficial to students, but to employers as well.

Matthew Bonderud earned a Masters degree in accounting from The U of M in 2010 and interned at FedEx at age 29 per recommendations from the career center’s staff.

Similar to Keen’s posi-tion with Lehman-Roberts, Bonderud, now Associate Auditor with FedEx Services, is involved in recruiting interns from The U of M for FedEx. He said his internship as a student gave him a huge advantage in landing a permanent job.

“I am extremely excited to see new interns come into Internal Audit from The U of M. I have found out that FedEx Internal Audit has had a great history in hiring interns from The U of M, then offering them permanent positions once they finish school,” Bonderud said.

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she took singing jazz seriously and began to sing in various clubs.

During her career, Cobb trav-eled around the world. In April, she toured with jazz pianist Michael Jefry Stevens in Austria, Prague, the Czech Republic, Germany, France and Belgium, performing in jazz clubs.

Despite her experience, Cobb said she is always nervous when she performs.

“It’s a healthy thing to be,” she said. “It gets your adrena-line flowing. The minute you stop being nervous is when you should worry, because you’ve become too confident,” she said.

Representing the great women of jazz is an honor, Cobb said.

“It makes me proud as a

woman, as a musician and it elevates me to the point where I have the ability to at least give light and educate the audience as to who these great women are,” she said.

Carol Morse, manager of mar-keting and communications for the school of music, said that Cobb is a Memphis Music legend, adding that she could not think of anyone better to help celebrate women in jazz.

“We’re always looking for interesting themes to build our concerts around, and this way just seemed a natural, especially with Joyce Cobb joining the Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra,” she said.

The orchestra, she said, is working on its third album this year, entitled “Mischevous.”

Jack Cooper, director of jazz studies, said the concert is an important tribute to women in

jazz and that there will be musical tributes to more than 10 women, some of whom people may not recognize.

Cooper said that some women featured in the concert have pro-duced music dating as far back as the 1920s.

“Mary Lou Williams wrote compositions for the Benny Goodman Orchestra in the 1930s,” he said. “We’re not focusing just on singers, but instrumentalists, composers and pianists.”

Cooper said the music school has never hosted a musical event like the Women of Jazz concert before.

“I have some arrangements being written specifically for this concert,” he said. “This is impor-tant because women generally aren’t highlighted in jazz. Over the years, it has become more male-dominated.”

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Polk said that she has seen students come to class late and leave shortly thereafter due to lack of seating.

For some students, the incon-venience of being seat-less is more than frustrating. Lauren Ganavazos, junior health pro-motions major, said that it can be embarrassing.

“I am taking a world civiliza-tions course this semester, and the classroom size is average,” she said. “Still, there are more students than places to sit, and anyone that comes in late has to stand against the wall. No one wants to be that person standing up the entire class. It’s humiliating.”

John Tienson, philosophy professor, said that he doesn’t think overcrowded classrooms are an issue.

Marilyn Johnson, an instruc-tor in the French department, did not share his sentiment.

“Students deserve a desk,” she said. “This is not neces-sarily a huge problem for me when this happens, but I know it causes my students to strug-gle. With the thousands of dol-lars students are paying for each course, they should be guaran-teed a place to sit when they get there.”

Johnson that said she report-ed the capacity issues to her department and was told it was a temporary problem.

“They told me that some stu-dents would soon be dropping and to just find extra desks in the hall,” she said. “I’ve already had to turn some students down who were trying to get in one of my classes because I knew we were still full.”

Lack of desks causes the greatest problem for students on test day, Cima said.

“Students who don’t come to class first to get a seat have to sit in chairs along the aisle,” she said. “When students have to take a test and don’t have a place sit, the situation is horrible.”

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On Campus

Junior interior design major Johnathan Patterson works on a 3-D construct of combined projects he’s done in class about his life in the fourth floor studio of Jones Hall. “I am attempting to create shapes and volume and space, to test the eye and challenge math visually.”

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The Social Pupils Lecture Seriespresents

“The Crisis of the Cultural Environment:Media & Democracy in the 21st Century”

A Film followed by Discussionwith

Kendra Murphy, M.A.Department of Sociology

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Long-shot Republican pres-idential candidate Herman Cain calls his surprise victory in a Florida straw poll over the weekend a victory of mes-sage over media, and he may well be right.

The Atlanta business executive and two-time cam-paign loser has long been overshadowed by news media attention to rivals such as Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. He doesn’t have their campaign money. He doesn’t have their resumes in politics — he lost the only two times he ran for office before. And he doesn’t get asked many questions in media-sponsored debates.

But he appeals to many rank-and-file Republicans with a deep voice and direct message that’s based on his record as a successful busi-nessman, a can-do delivery that doesn’t knock other Republicans and a proposal for a flat tax that touches deep in the Republican DNA of loathing for the Internal Revenue Service.

These assets helped him surge past his more promi-nent rivals in the Florida poll Saturday, winning 37 percent of the vote, more than Perry’s 15 percent and Romney’s 14 percent combined.

“People are listening to the message and not just, with all due respect, to the media,” Cain said on NBC, finding himself suddenly in demand

for TV appearances.“You have to be an effective

communicator,” he added on CNN. “If I were not an effective communicator, that would be a big weakness, but you also have to have some substance. People are reso-nating with my ideas.”

Cain, 65, a former execu-tive who helped turn around a division of Burger King and the Godfather’s Pizza chain, got his first taste of the politi-cal spotlight in 1994 when he stood up to challenge President Bill Clinton on his

health care proposal during a town hall meeting in Omaha, Neb.

He ran briefly for the Republican presidential nom-ination in 2000, and tried for a Republican Senate nomina-tion in Georgia in 2004, only to finish a distant second.

After a turn in radio and some time in the pulpit as a preacher, Cain is a polished speaker with a deep, resonant voice.

He is not, however, a pol-ished politician.

He once lambasted Planned Parenthood, saying its found-

er originally wanted centers in black neighborhoods “so they could help kill black babies.” Earlier this year, he said he wouldn’t be comfort-able appointing a Muslim to his Cabinet or the federal bench.

However impolitic he may be, it’s his talk about running government like a business that strikes a chord, especial-ly among conservatives tired of disappointments from pro-fessional politicians in both major parties.

“He is not a politician.

He’s a businessman with no-nonsense ideas,” said Richard Webster, a teacher from Miami-Dade County, Fla. “People want to try some-thing completely different.”

Cain promises a Social Security rescue modeled after a largely privatized system in Chile. To cheers, he says he’d throw out the tax code and replace it with a 9-9-9 plan: a 9 percent flat income tax, a 9 percent national sales tax and a 9 percent corpo-rate income tax. He offers no numbers on how much revenue his tax code would

generate.When he got to it in a

speech to Florida conserva-tives Saturday, hundreds jumped in, chanting “9-9-9.”

Cain also scores with his personal story, an up-by-the-bootstraps tale that culmi-nates in his so-far successful fight against colon cancer.

“I’ve liked Herman Cain from the very beginning,” said Pat Palaio, a caregiver from Perry, Fla., who attend-ed the debate and straw poll in Florida. “But I don’t think he can win. It’s important to pick a candidate who can win.”

While Cain is doing well onstage, he hasn’t been doing as much on the ground to win in Iowa, the state that kicks off the nomination vot-ing next winter.

“He has done a great job in the debates,” said Craig Robinson, the editor of The Iowa Republican website and a former political direc-tor of the Iowa Republican Party.

Robinson said Cain was resonating with the sim-ple and specific 9-9-9 plan, especially compared with Romney’s 59-point economic plan and Perry’s still-miss-ing plan. He said Cain also did well by not attacking his Republican rivals, keeping his fire focused on President Barack Obama.

But if Cain wants to turn his moment of attention into a more durable campaign, Robinson said, he’ll have to start drawing contrasts with

other GOP candidates. And he’ll have to start campaign-ing more in person.

“He hasn’t been here since the (Iowa) straw poll six weeks ago,” Robinson said. “I see a ton of potential in Herman Cain. But I don’t see a willingness to do what it takes to win a state like Iowa.”

Politics

Cain’s message resonates with rank-and-file gOP membersBY STEVEN THOMMAMcClatchy Newspapers

“People are listening to the message and not just,

with all due respect, to the media.”

— Herman CainGOP presidential hopeful


Three second-half goals, includ-ing two in the last six minutes, were enough to give South Carolina a 3-2 victory over The University of Memphis men’s soccer team on Saturday in the Conference USA opener for both teams.

After a slow first half that saw both teams attempt a combined nine shots, The U of M took the lead in the 34th minute when soph-omore midfielder Liam Collins sent the ball to sophomore forward Mark Sherrod and he booted the ball into the right side of the net to give the Tigers a 1-0 halftime lead. The Tigers struck again in the 49th minute with a header by Sherrod, his second goal of the night, bringing his season total to eight. Collins, credited with an assist on the play, is third in the nation in assists, and said Sherrod’s positioning helps him.

“He gets in good positions and makes it easy for me,” Collins said. “We just need to finish games off and not let teams back into it. But this year our team is a lot better than last year. We just need to get wins as well as play good football.”

The two teams traded blows as the half went on, with each team taking 10 shots. South Carolina finally got on the board in the 73rd minute. Mike Mangotic received the ball in the box and passed to Bradlee Baladez for the chip in, trimming the Memphis lead to one.

The goal energized the Gamecocks, who kept up their pressure on the Memphis defense. The pressure paid off in the 85th minute. Braeden Troyer received the ball after the Tigers failed to clear, and slotted the ball into Hurley’s right post, knotting the score at 2-2.

One minute later South Carolina completed their comeback when Eric Martinez headed towards Root, who scored to give the Gamecocks a 3-2 lead, and inevi-tably the game winner with just four minutes remaining. The Tigers lost for the second time this sea-

son, falling to 5-2-1 (0-1-0 C-USA) and 2-5-2 all-time against South Carolina.

“(The goals) came from long throw-ins and they’re difficult situations to defend,” head coach Richie Grant said. “We had defend-ed that very well against Bradley and Missouri State in particular, so it wasn’t something that we hadn’t

seen before, but credit to South Carolina, they did it very well and it worked for them.”

The Tigers resume C-USA play next Saturday as they take on the Marshall Thundering Herd in Huntington, W.Va. They will return home on Oct. 8 to take on Florida International at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex.

Two Tiger goals not enough as gamecocks win it lateBY SCOTT HALLSports Reporter

Men’s Soccer

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Why we should still care about Tiger football

With a 2-14 record as the head f o o t b a l l coach at The University of Memphis in two sea-sons – also equivalent to one full season in the NFL, Larry Porter’s resume doesn’t actually speak for itself. It may be safe to say that he’s still learning how to be a head coach and we need to give him time. But how much time does

he actually need? After all, it took John Calipari six years to build the basketball program to what it is now – though it only took a few short months to get our national champion-ship runner-up banner revoked. And his successor Josh Pastner, was heralded as a great recruiter like Porter, and hasn’t been a head coach before either – like Porter. And we all gave him a pass when in his first season the Tigers failed to live up to expec-tations and didn’t make the NCAA tournament and lost 10 games. So why beat down Porter when he was given a program that has been mediocre at best even when DeAngelo Williams graced us with his Heisman Trophy caliber seasons?

The fact of the matter is that despite what everyone thinks, we should definitely care more about football than basketball. When you really look at it, the only thing that matters today

in collegiate athletics is football, not basketball. Not to knock bas-ketball, but with all this shuf-fling and re-shuffling of foot-ball teams and their conferences realigning, The University of Memphis and its administration need to realize that we may be in deep trouble with our football program if we don’t do some-thing about it quick. And it’s also really hard and frustrating to sit in the press box to watch and report on a team that constantly gets beat by 40 or more points in an empty stadium on what seems like a weekly basis, all the while not being able to say anything positive about it.

Because these guys can’t win if we don’t have their backs and show that we care. We have to start giving the football pro-gram the same treatment as the basketball program gets. Sellout the home games, travel to road contests, be proud to say you’re from Memphis, stop cheering for the other team and defi-nitely quit allowing other teams outnumber us in our own sta-dium. We have to support them no matter what. We have to stop acting like one loss means we’re not good enough. Quit being a bandwagon fan and stop wait-ing for the team to win a few games before you start sup-porting them. They don’t owe us anything – we owe them. If we want to compete against conference and regional pow-ers, we have to come out and pack Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium despite the team’s record – that’s why we should still care.

BY ADAM DOUgLASSports Editor

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basketball.

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After entering the top 10 in national rankings last week, the climb continues for The University of Memphis women’s soccer team, who is ranked No. 6 in the sixth poll released in the 2011 season, as announced by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America on Tuesday. It is the highest rank-ing in program history, the third straight week the program has attained a program-high ranking.

“I am extremely proud of my team,” head coach Brooks Monaghan said. “It comes from hard work. It’s not rocket science, but I still tell them that they have to stay humble because it can all be taken away in any moment.”

Memphis earned a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Houston on Friday, and a game winning goal by sophomore midfielder-forward Christabel Oduro gave The U of M a 1-0 win at Rice. The Lady Tigers, ranked No. 8 in the Soccer America poll, are riding the longest win streak in program history with a 10-0-0

start to the season.“We have to be at our best at

every game and I stress that to the girls all the time,” Monaghan said. “We know we have a tar-get on our backs because of the ranking so we will be getting everyone’s best shot.”

The Lady Tigers close a five-game road trip this weekend with matches at Marshall (2-7-1, 0-2-0 C-USA) on Friday at 6 p.m. and East Carolina (5-3-1, 0-2-0 C-USA) on Sunday at 1 p.m. The Lady Tigers return to the Mike Rose Soccer Complex on Oct. 7 to host SMU.

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Lady Tigers climb to No. 6Team continues historic ascent in polls, reminded by coach Monaghan to “stay humble” with “target on our backs”

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